Thursday, December 17, 2009

500 million households cook over an open fire

Want to see the climate change calendar set back by a decade or two? And at a cost of only $15 billion?

Wired magazine reports that those households could use "clean stoves," at a cost of only $30 each. Open fires produce black carbon. Black carbon is thought to be responsible for nearl half of the 3.4 degree temperature increase in the Arctic since 1890.